A recent study indicates that children living in the Himalayan mountain region in Nepal have lower levels of tooth decay than children living in suburban areas in the United States, despite the fact that people in the Himalayan mountain region in Nepal receive little to no professional dental care, while people in suburban areas in the United States see a dentist an average of 1.25 times per year. Thus, regular dental care is not helpful in preventing tooth decay.
The argument posits that dental care does not play a role in preventing tooth decay. The conclusion of the argument is based on the premise that a certain demographic has a lower level of tooth decay even in the absence of dental care, therefore dental care is not necessary. The assumptions on which the argument is based, relies on no clear evidence. Hence, the argument is unconvincing as it stands.
Firstly, it is readily assumed that it prudent to compare two different demographics, that is Nepal and US. It can be the case that two compared groups may have different diets. On one hand, the children indigenous to Nepal may have meals like meat, eggs veggies which are low in sugar. While, on the other hand, kids in US might be having too much of chocolates and sodas containing high sugar. This would explain the higher ratio of tooth decay among the kids in US suburbs.
Secondly, it the argument could have been more clearer if we had the actual numbers of the number of children studied. It can be the case that the survey included only hundred kids from Nepal, but from US, they surveyed ten thousand or more. In fact, it is not at all clear, if the line "little to no dental care" means that only 5 children among 1000 or 1 children among 10,000 received dental attention. The explanation to the discrepancy could be that "little to no dental care" means that children visited hospital at least once a year and had access to better dentists than the kids in suburbs.
Lastly, the argument fails to incorporate one of the key factor, the actual number of visits of a particular suburban area. It is said that the average visit is 1.25 times a year. It can be the case that among three suburbs, first one has the average of 4, second has 1 and the last one has 0. Additionally, the kids in suburban area with zero visits would be in more dire need of dental checkup than others. Hence, the term "average of 1.25" might be hiding a bigger story that not all the suburban areas have equal dental visits.
To sum up, without are more exhaustive study, which exposes more facts and figures about the two compared groups, the conclusion of the argument that dental care and tooth decay are not related is unsubstantial and is open to debate.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 277, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...therefore dental care is not necessary. The assumptions on which the argument is ba...
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Line 5, column 43, Rule ID: MOST_COMPARATIVE[2]
Message: Use only 'clearer' (without 'more') when you use the comparative.
Suggestion: clearer
...condly, it the argument could have been more clearer if we had the actual numbers of the num...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, hence, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, at least, in fact, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 58.6224719101 85% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1887.0 2235.4752809 84% => OK
No of words: 405.0 442.535393258 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.65925925926 5.05705443957 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48604634366 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52270772386 2.79657885939 90% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 215.323595506 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.491358024691 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 584.1 704.065955056 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 11.0 4.99550561798 220% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.5262587053 60.3974514979 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.3157894737 118.986275619 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3157894737 23.4991977007 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.94736842105 5.21951772744 133% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 10.2758426966 39% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.13820224719 195% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.137658135871 0.243740707755 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0434870633349 0.0831039109588 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0295017415613 0.0758088955206 39% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0748748059989 0.150359130593 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0212329193063 0.0667264976115 32% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 14.1392134831 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 48.8420337079 137% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.75 12.1639044944 80% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.88 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 100.480337079 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.7820224719 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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